With the calendar set for the 6th Bristol Representative District race, another candidate has emerged.

Lindsey Bshara-Leviss, co-owner of Salt Marsh Realty, said she has pulled nomination papers to run as a Democrat in the special election to fill the seat vacated by David Sullivan. She joins a field of Democratic contenders that is expected to include David Dennis, Carole Fiola and Bradford Kilby.

With the calendar set for the 6th Bristol Representative District race, another candidate has emerged.

Lindsey Bshara-Leviss, co-owner of Salt Marsh Realty, said she has pulled nomination papers to run as a Democrat in the special election to fill the seat vacated by David Sullivan. She joins a field of Democratic contenders that is expected to include David Dennis, Carole Fiola and Bradford Kilby.

Bshara-Leviss said she enters the race in hopes of bringing voters a candidate who is not tied to politics, noting that both Dennis and Kilby serve on the City Council and Fiola spent 10 years as a member of the Governor’s Council.

“As I’ve met with everyone signing my nomination papers, they’ve encouraged me that it is a good idea to bring something fresh to the position,” Bshara-Leviss said.

While she enters without the political backgrounds of her opponents, Bshara-Leviss said she is “kind of inspired” by the success Mayor Will Flanagan has in coming out of nowhere to be elected to the city’s top position.

Bshara-Leviss said she is a longtime Fall River resident who, after living in the Flint, has lived in the Eastern Avenue area. A graduate of the former Southeastern Massachusetts University — now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth — with a degree in finance, Bshara-Leviss said she has some concerns about the future of Fall River.

She added that the short campaign calendar also gave her a boost to run, with the primary scheduled for Aug. 13, even though her potential opponents have already spent months preparing for their campaigns, which she doesn’t consider an obstacle.

“I think its more effective to be in at the time that it happens,” Bshara-Leviss said. “But I’ll get out there as much as I can in the next 10 weeks.”

Leviss said her role as co-owner of a realty agency provides her with a background that could prove helpful in the role of state representative.

“Being in my own business, I’ve had to manage myself and other people every day, so that should be very helpful,” Bshara-Leviss said. “I don’t work in a job where you know what’s going to happen day-to-day, so it’s a little bit more like the job of state representative.”

Bshara-Leviss said supporters who encouraged her campaign also pointed out that her professional attributes provide valuable skills, such as connecting with people and selling herself.

Bshara-Leviss said the effort to sell herself as a candidate will likely include holding coffee hours and traveling throughout the district to knock on doors. The 6th Bristol District is made up mostly of Fall River’s North End and the westernmost precinct in Freetown.

Candidates running in the 6th Bristol District election have until July 2 to submit nomination papers, and 150 signatures of registered voters from the district are required.